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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;IDLER, post: 24663416, member: 148456&quot;]I SURMISE it&#039;s a token originally commissioned by Columbia Records / Brunswick Records to function in the new Wurlitzer “Jukeboxes”, to promote Columbia / Brunswick&#039;s newest, fast-rising recording artist, Billie Holiday (the token&#039;s obverse image).....and, of course, to boost royalty income for the profit-hemoraging record company. 1937 was the peak of Holiday&#039;s &quot;tin-pan-alley&quot; recording career, with 16 Bilboard top-20 recordings that year.&nbsp; Other parties - undoubtedly - subsequently acquired the token dies (there were several subtle obverse die varieties).</p><p>[Google it].</p><p><br /></p><p>So, yes, jallengomez, you&#039;re right: That was One “rough” Gal. </p><p><br /></p><p>Check out the 1935 photo of Billie with the Basie Boyz.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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